ENEMY OFFICERS DISMAYED GERMANS AT A SERIOUS DISADVANTAGE
DEFEAT AT STRONGEST POINT
ADMITTED.
(nEUIIiIt'S TELEGRAM.)
LONDON, 22nd September
Renter's correspondent ;it , Headquarters says: The German positions were hold so tensely that it is estimated that there were four Germans tu. every yard of front. Several of tlio best German "divisions were so shattered as ty? ueces-
sitate their -withdrawal. We won a victory which leaves the enemy in .this wide tract of Flanders at a serious disadvantage. Captured officers, who hitherto have been haughty, and supercilious, now literally lao-w to their captors, and confess defeat in what was regarded as their strongest point. They now view the future with' dismay.
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Evening Post, Volume xciv, Issue 73, 24 September 1917, Page 7
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